The following is the English translation of a press release kindly provided to us by the Center for Fundamental Rights.
‘The Brussels terror team has fined Hungary a total of 273 billion HUF ($808 million) since last summer because we are protecting our borders. This means that 104,000 HUF ($308) has effectively been taken from the pocket of every Hungarian family so far,’ Director General for the Center for Fundamental Rights Miklós Szánthó stated at a press conference held in front of the European Commission’s Budapest office.
‘Péter Magyar and his colleagues can take credit for the dubious achievement of managing to fleece Hungarian families even though they are not in government,’ he added.
Speaking at the Center’s campaign event on the dangers of migration titled Just One Wrong Choice, Szánthó argued that the fine ‘can be seen as a kind of down payment in light of the so-called “TISZA tax”‘. According to him, Péter Magyar and his TISZA Party had voted in the European Parliament to fast-track the EU’s migration pact ‘on the instructions of their bosses in Brussels’. He went on to claim that they also voted against extra funding for Hungarian border protection, and that one of the party’s experts described the southern border fence as merely ‘an unnecessary prestige investment’.
As part of the campaign, the Center has opened a public photo exhibition in front of the European Commission’s Budapest office—referred to by Szánthó as ‘Ursula von der Leyen’s Budapest Council of Deputies’. The exhibition contrasts images of migrants from 10 years ago in Röszke, Hungary near the Serbian border and at Keleti Railway Station in Budapest with current scenes from Western Europe, which the organizers say illustrate ‘violence, crime, terror, anti-Christian and anti-Jewish sentiment, and no-go zones’. Szánthó also argued that this trend is part of a deliberate plan by Brussels.
Bence Apáti, an opinion leader for the campaign and a Megafon influencer, cited Paris, France and Pisa, Italy as examples of what can happen when migration policy goes wrong. He claimed that migrant gangs terrorize neighbourhoods there even during the day, and that it’s dangerous to walk the streets after 10pm. He reminded all that ten years ago, the people who arrived in Röszke were not destitute families but ‘men ready for battle’ who attacked Hungary’s border.
At the end of his speech, he displayed an empty collection box to symbolize what he said was the European Commission’s failure to contribute ‘a single forint’ to Hungary’s border protection costs.
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